Helpful Links

The following links provide additional information that may be useful and is being provided consistent with the intended purpose of the Web site. However, the Missing Child Center-Hawaii cannot attest to the accuracy of information provided by this link. Providing links to a non-Missing Child Center-Hawaii Web site does not constitute an endorsement by the Missing Child Center-Hawaii, any of its employees, or sponsors of the site.

National Center for Missing and Exploited Childrenwww.missingkids.com
As the nation’s resource center for child protection, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) spearheads national efforts to locate and recover missing children and raises public awareness about ways to prevent child abduction, molestation and sexual exploitation. A private, non-profit organization established in 1984, NCMEC operates under a congressional mandate and works in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice an Delinquency Prevention in coordinating the efforts of law enforcement, social service agencies, elected officials, judges, prosecutors, educators, and the public and private sectors to break the cycle of violence that historically has perpetuated these needless crimes against children.

http://www.missingkidshawaii.org
The objective of the Friends of Missing Child Center – Hawaii (MCCH) is to raise funds to support the MCCH programs and other programs for the prevention and recovery of abducted children. When the program began in 1995 the Friends of MCCH funded both the staffing and operation of the MCCH. Presently the State of Hawaii funds the staffing and operation of the Center while the Friends serves to fund programs run by MCCH and others.

National Runaway Safelinehttp://www.1800runaway.org/
1-800-RUNAWAY
The 1-800-RUNAWAY hotline and 1800RUNAWAY.org online crisis services are available 24-hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year throughout the United States and its territories, including Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Guam.The organization serves as the federally designated national communication system for runaway and homeless youth. Our services are provided through funding from Family and Youth Services Bureau in the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the generosity of private funders: individual donors, corporate partners, and foundation grants.

The AMBER Alert Plan, named for 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, is a voluntary partnership between law-enforcement agencies, broadcasters, and transportation agencies to activate an urgent bulletin in the most serious child-abduction cases. Broadcasters use the Emergency Alert System (EAS) to air a description of the abducted child and suspected abductor. This is the same concept used during severe weather emergencies. The goal of an AMBER Alert is to instantly galvanize the entire community to assist in the search for and safe recovery of the child.

Team H.O.P.E. (Help Offering Parents Empowerment)http://www.missingkids.com/teamhope
The mission of Team H.O.P.E. is to assist families with missing children by offering counsel, resources, empowerment and emotional support from a trained volunteer. They are part of NCMEC’s Family Advocacy Division, and consist of mothers, fathers, siblings and extended family members who have had, or still have, a cherished missing child, and have demonstrated the ability to turn their own personal tragedies into vital lifelines of support for other families.

National Missing and Unidentified Persons System

www.namus.org
The National Institute of Justice’s National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs) is a national centralized repository and resource center for missing persons and unidentified decedent records. NamUs is a free online system that can be searched by medical examiners, coroners, law enforcement officials and the general public from all over the country in hopes of resolving these cases.

Project ALERThttp://www.missingkids.org/ProjectALERT
Project ALERT® is a team of approximately 170 retired local, state and federal law enforcement professionals who donate their time and experience to the law enforcement community. Members are no longer sworn investigators, but they all share their abilities, knowledge and experience through the Project ALERT program.

Take Rootwww.takeroot.org
Take Root is a support organization made up of adults who were parentally abducted as children. Using their negative experiences to positively assist victims, Take Root members not only provide peer support, but also conducts research and educational outreach, working with mental health professionals who treat parentally abducted children and adults.

Hawaii Internet Crimes Against Children Task Forcehttp://ag.hawaii.gov/hicac/Hawaii’s Attorney General has created a statewide Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force with the help of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. The Hawaii ICAC Task Force is part of a cooperative nationwide network of ICAC Task Forces that are dedicated to protecting children in the online environment. In order to accomplish this goal, our ICAC Task Force makes Internet education and safety programs and information available for Hawaii’s children, teachers and parents. If prevention efforts fail, Hawaii’s ICAC Task Force is ready to vigorously investigate and prosecute persons who victimize children through the use of computers and the Internet.

Salvation Armywww.salvationarmy.org
1-800-698-7728
For a small fee, the Salvation Army provides a family tracing service, whose purpose is to facilitate successful reunions between adult family members with whom contact has been lost for over six months. While they reserve the right to accept or reject applications or to assign priorities to a case for the searching party, privacy will be maintained for those who do not wish to reveal their location. Searches are not done for issues relating to legal matters, inheritance, adoption, genealogy or children under the age of 18.

International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children

http://www.icmec.org/
Safeguarding children around the world is a responsibility every one of us shares — creating a world that is safer for today’s children and safer still tomorrow. To this end, we advocate, train and collaborate to protect the world’s children.

We focus on programs that have an impact on addressing the complex issues surrounding missing children, child abduction, child sexual abuse, and child sexual exploitation. We offer support to governments, policymakers, law enforcement, prosecutors, industry, civil society, and others across the globe.